My two cents is that this is in fact about publishers (Ubi in particular in this case.) A telling fact was the name change to "IL-2 Sturmovik..." in the west. Likely they never intended to use Ubi in the first place but Ubi probably had sequel rights to the original IL-2, and forced him to market this as some kind of sequel so that they could lay claim to it.
Of course this is total guesswork, but if I was robbed like that it would sure make me want to leave the industry.
Anyway I wouldn't worry too much, there has been lots of talk about expansions despite the fact that Oleg (I assume) has been planning this for a while. There's no reason the rest of the devs would want to abandon their jobs.
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03-22-2011, 04:14 PM
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